Rick & Morty

An Advanced, User-Friendly App for Exploring the Rick & Morty Universe

Change Type

• New Feature Work
• Bug Fix
• INFRA

Description

The Rick & Morty app includes the following major features:

• Four Major Tabs: Characters, Locations, Episodes, Settings
• Pagination: Efficient handling of large data sets
• Light & Dark Mode: Supports both themes for better user experience
• Universal App: Designed for both iPhone and iPad
• Integrated SwiftUI views within a UIKit application for modern and declarative UI components.
• Implemented infinite scrolling in lists to load more data as the user scrolls down.
• Efficiently loaded data in batches to reduce memory usage and improve performance.
• Used parallel async tasks to fetch multiple sets of data simultaneously, reducing wait times.
• Cached images locally to reduce redundant network calls and improve load times.
• Integrated SafariServices to display web content seamlessly within the app's settings screen.
• Utilized StoreKit to prompt users for app ratings and reviews, improving app visibility and feedback.
• Compositional Layout: [1] Adaptive Layouts: Created complex and adaptive collection view layouts that adjust to different screen sizes and orientations. [2] Section-Based Design: Designed collection views with multiple sections and varying layouts to display content dynamically.

Technologies Used

• UIKit
• Swift
• SwiftUI
• Compositional Layout
• Programatic UI
• MVVM Architecture
• Pagination
• Networking
• Search & filter functinality
• Parallel Async Work
• Image Caching
• Caching prior API response (In-memory cache)
• DispatchGroup
• SafariServices: To show web view in settings screen
• StoreKit: To show prompt and get app ratings from the user.

Main Layout of App

Characters Tab	Locations Tab	Episodes Tab	Settings Tab

Detail Screens of individual tabs & Pagination

Characters Detail Screen	Locations Detail Screen	Episodes Detail Screen	Pagination
Character.Detail.mp4	Location.Detail.mp4	Episode.Detail.mp4	Pagination.mp4

Features

Search & Filter	No Results	Settings Items	Ratings
Search.mp4	NoResults.mp4	SettingsItems.mp4	Ratings.mp4

iPad

iPad Resolution	Themes: Light & Dark
ipad.mp4	Theme.mp4